POSTGRADUATE

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

Newsletter – September/October 2013

Welcome to the September/October newsletter Human Security@20 Conference about recent developments related to our suite of From 16-18 January 2014 we will be hosting an MA degrees in International Studies and the MA international conference, which aspires to take in and International Relations. stock of two decades of conceptualizing and practicing human security. It seeks to promote Dr. Stephen Hurt (Course Director, MA in new approaches to understand and address the International Studies) interdependent threats to human dignity. Keynote speakers will include Sonia Picado, Chair of the New Study Trip for 2014-15 UN Advisory Board on Human Security We are delighted to announce that for students joining us in September 2014, a 5-day study trip Semester Dates to Brussels and will be included as Download full semester dates at: part of the two MA courses. This will include http://www.brookes.ac.uk/studying-at- visits to EU Institutions, NATO, the International brookes/learning-and-teaching/semester-dates/ Criminal Court and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which was recently awarded the 2013 .

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Society Seminar Series www.facebook.com/groups/brookes.pginternationalstudies Our Semester 1 seminar series is up and running. The first session saw Prof. Engelbert Stockhammer (Kingston University) speak on . MA International Studies The Crisis. This was held on our Wheatley (International Relations) campus together with our colleagues in the Business School. We are looking forward to welcoming a number of other guest speakers . MA International Studies during the semester, including Dr. Gonzalo Pozo- (Global Political Economy) Martin (King’s College London) who will be talking about ‘The Geopolitics of Capitalism’. . MA International Studies (Environment) Latest Staff Activities  Prof. Barrie Axford’s new book Theories of . MA International Studies Globalization was recently published with (Security) Polity Press.  Dr Stephen Hurt, as Co-Investigator has had a . MA International Law and successful bid for an ESRC Seminar Series on International Relations ‘British Africa policy after Labour’. The project starts in October 2013 and runs for 28 months.